An essential prerequisite for the issue of a professional license is that you can provide evidence that you have completed full training as a pharmacist in accordance with the law of the country in which you completed your training.

Further prerequisites are that

• you have not been guilty of any conduct that makes you unworthy or unreliable to practise the profession of pharmacist (reliability and worthiness),
• you are not unfit from a health point of view to practise the profession of pharmacist (health suitability) and
• you have the necessary knowledge of the German language to exercise the profession (knowledge of specialist languages in a professional context at level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages is required; language skills must be proven to the professional licensing office in a suitable manner; further information can be found under "Special information"; a link to the homepage of the specialist language test of the Bavarian State Chamber of Pharmacists can be found under "Further links").

The granting of a license to practice medicine or a professional permit requires, among other things, that you have the necessary knowledge of the German language to practice your profession. The 87th Conference of Health Ministers in 2014 agreed in a key points paper on the requirements for knowledge of the German language and how this knowledge can be demonstrated. The following applies:

1. the required German language skills are deemed to be proven for applicants for whom the licensing authority determines without doubt that German is spoken and written fluently (e.g. as a native language) or that the completion of medical, dental, pharmaceutical or psychotherapeutic training (proof of training) was obtained in German.

2. proof of the required German language skills is generally deemed to have been provided if the applicant has completed at least ten years of general schooling at a German-speaking school or has completed at least three years of vocational training in German.

3. if proof is not deemed to have been provided in accordance with 1. or 2. above, the language skills required for practicing the profession shall be deemed to have been demonstrated by submission of a certificate of successful completion of the specialist language test at the Bavarian State Chamber of Pharmacists.

4 Specialist language tests taken at the Chamber of Pharmacists or the competent authority of another country, as well as specialist language tests from other examination institutions, shall be recognized as proof, provided that it is guaranteed that the examination there is equivalent to the specialist language test at the Bavarian State Chamber of Pharmacists. Whether this requirement is met in individual cases must be clarified in advance with the relevant professional licensing office.